It takes two to infect: Structural biologists shed light on mechanism of invasion protein

Monday, November 30, 2009 - 11:36 in Biology & Nature

Bacteria are quite creative when infecting the human organism. They invade cells, migrate through the body, avoid an immune response and misuse processes of the host cell for their own purposes. Structural biologists have now elucidated one mechanism of Listeria bacteria.

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